May 2013 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Looking for a good way to manage passwords for CRAM-MD5
by Steinar Bang 15 May '13

15 May '13

I prefer not to use clear text passwords, even over an encrypted connection. With IMAP, the only such mechanism with widespread client support is CRAM-MD5 (please correct my if I'm wrong... I'd love to be corrected here...). On the dovecot 2 wiki, the only way I've found to implement CRAM-MD5 support, is to use a passwd-like file: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/CRAM-MD5 I am running a small IMAP server used by my family. As long as I was the single user on the IMAPd, manually managing the passwd file as doable (if a bit cumbersome). With 2-5 users, I'm looking for a more elegant solution. Does anyone have a similar situation, and a solution they would like to share (config/HOWTO)? Here are the possibilities that comes to mind: 1. Create a web interface to change the password (does anyone know of a ready-made solution for this that they could recommend?) 2. Convince PAM to update the dovecot HMAC-MD5 password file as well as the regular system password file (my dovecot runs on a debian stable "wheezy" system. In theory this should be possible, but it is very hard to find documentation on what PAM modules exist, and how to write a new one, and if it is possible to chain modules in PAM, ie. use one module to update-this-passwd-file and then use a different module to update a different passwd file) 3. Use LDAP, which I think can also support CRAM-MD5 when using password lookups http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/LDAP/PasswordLookups (learning how to set up LDAP is something I have avoided for years, because it looks awfully complex and time consuming) I haven't looked into using databases, SQL, or key-value store, because they seem like a more cumbersome way to do the same thing as passwd files. But I am aware that this assumption could be wrong. It could e.g. be easier to make the web interface idea work with a database manager, than messing around with setuid bits to safely update a passwd file owned and touchable only by the dovecot user. Thanks for any and all responses! - Steinar

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 -> 2.1 sieve problem
by Trever L. Adams 15 May '13

15 May '13

I had a completely working setup before. I upgraded, now I get: Error: 7LUaNYqHklG6EAAApwKjnA: sieve: execution of script (null) failed, but implicit keep was successful sieve = /home/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /home/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/sieve (this was ~/sieve) I am not quite sure what is going on. Is anyone else seeing this? Any idea on what has changed? (I am not readily seeing it in changelogs or mailing lists.) Thank you, Trever -- "A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you." -- Ramsey Clark

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[Dovecot] 2.2.1 and quota-status
by Christian Rößner 15 May '13

15 May '13

Hi, maybe this question already came up and I missed it in my mails, but if not… : I have configured Quota for Dovecot since decades and now with the new policy service, I wanted to include this into Postfix. I have followed Ralf's Blog and there a two Problems: I need to do this: ls -la /var/run/dovecot/config srw------- 1 root root 0 May 14 11:06 /var/run/dovecot/config chown vmail /var/run/dovecot/config ls -la /var/run/dovecot/config srw------- 1 vmail root 0 May 14 11:06 /var/run/dovecot/config Where can I tell Dovecot to set user vmail here? If I do not do this, I get the following error in the logs: May 14 10:54:50 mx0 dovecot: quota-status(c(a)roessner-network-solutions.com): Error: user c(a)roessner-network-solutions.com: Error reading configuration: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/config) failed: Permission denied Also the following test does not succeed: telnet localhost 12340 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. request=smtpd_access_policy sender=foo(a)bar.tld recipient=c(a)roessner-network-solutions.com size=10000000000 action= ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. Nothing in the logs. Just an empty answer. Here is my config: doveconf -n # 2.2.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.8.6-hardened x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.2 auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 ntlm auth_verbose = yes hostname = mail.roessner-net.de lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_access_groups = vmail mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/virtual/copymail/attachments mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_solr zlib mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mdbox_rotate_size = 128 M namespace { list = children location = mdbox:%%h/mdbox prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox "Deleted Messages" { special_use = \Trash } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk-E-Mail { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } mailbox junkmail { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/mail/virtual/shared-mailboxes.db fts = solr fts_solr = break-imap-search url=http://localhost:8080/solr/ quota = dict:User quota::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=300M:messages=20000 quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { extra_groups = ssl-cert unix_listener auth-worker { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = vmail } service auth { extra_groups = ssl-cert unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = vmail } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp-dovecot { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { port = 12340 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/SSL123_CA_Bundle.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail.roessner-net.de.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.roessner-net.de.key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_solr zlib sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_solr zlib sieve } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_solr zlib imap_quota imap_acl imap_zlib } Thanks for helping me… Kind regards -Christian Rößner -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein

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[Dovecot] Crossrealm Kerberos problems
by Jonathan Hanks 15 May '13

15 May '13

I am running dovecot 2.1.7 on Debian Squeeze 64 bit, config information at the end of the email. I am working on a Kerberos/GSSAPI based setup that requires cross-realm authentication. I have regular GSSAPI working, I can log in using pam_krb5 with password based logins or with the GSSAPI support when using a kerberos ticket in the default realm. However when I attempt to authenticate using cross realm authentication the login fails (logs below). After perusing the source code I beleive that the problem is as such: All taking place in mech-gssapi.c 1. mech_gssapi_userok(...) calls mech_gssapi_krb5_userok 2. mech_gssapi_krb5_userok(...) calls krb5_kuserok(...) to verify that the given Kerberos prinicpal can log in as the requested user. 3. The authentication process is running as the Dovecot user so: 3a. krb5_kuserok(...) looks for ~dovecot/.k5login to authorize cross realm logins 3b. There is no ~dovecot/.k5login, thus no cross realm access is allowed 3c. It should be looking at the users .k5login ~poptest/.k5login 3d. This never happens and the login attempt fails I have the server set up to use system users specifically so that I can do cross-realm authentication. Do I have some basic configuration error? How do I change the authentication process to run as the user requesting to login? Should that be allowed? Another thought is to backport some of the patches proposed for 2.2 that remove krb5_kuserok from the loop. Thank you for any insight. This server is not in production use so I can experiment. May 9 10:54:49 lakeview.ligo-wa.caltech.edu dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(jonathan.hanks(a)SOME.REALM,198.129.xxx.xxx,<qYAkv0zc9wDGgdAT>): Negotiated security layer May 9 10:54:49 lakeview.ligo-wa.caltech.edu dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(jonathan.hanks(a)SOME.REALM,198.129.xxx.xxx,<qYAkv0zc9wDGgdAT>): Negotiated security layer May 9 10:54:49 lakeview.ligo-wa.caltech.edu dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: CONT#0111#011BQQF/wAMAAAAAAAACpxNKQH///+YdY3lGMDBq6TWTfc= May 9 10:54:49 lakeview.ligo-wa.caltech.edu dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: CONT#0111#011BQQF/wAMAAAAAAAACpxNKQH///+YdY3lGMDBq6TWTfc= May 9 10:54:49 lakeview.ligo-wa.caltech.edu dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> May 9 10:54:49 lakeview.ligo-wa.caltech.edu dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> May 9 10:54:49 lakeview.ligo-wa.caltech.edu dovecot: auth: gssapi(jonathan.hanks(a)SOME.REALM,198.129.xxx.xxx,<qYAkv0zc9wDGgdAT>): User not authorized to log in as poptest May 9 10:54:49 lakeview.ligo-wa.caltech.edu dovecot: auth: gssapi(jonathan.hanks(a)SOME.REALM,198.129.xxx.xxx,<qYAkv0zc9wDGgdAT>): User not authorized to log in as poptest My config is as follows: # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.7 auth_debug = yes auth_gssapi_hostname = $ALL auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/mail.keytab auth_mechanisms = plain login gssapi auth_username_format = %u auth_verbose = yes listen = * mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/inbox/%u mail_privileged_group = mail passdb { args = dovecot driver = pam } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail-server.pem ssl_cipher_list = !aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DSS:!DES:RC4-SHA:RC4-MD5:ALL ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail-server.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } -- Jonathan Hanks General Computing Sys Admin LIGO Hanford Observatory

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[Dovecot] Fatal: Can't finish POP3 UIDL command
by stevenfah 15 May '13

15 May '13

I have been setting up a new mail server and copied our client's old mail to it. The old server has Courier (under Plesk), we're using Dovecot on the new server. Most accounts seem to work fine (under IMAP or POP3), but for a few we're getting the following in the /var/log/mail.err. Error: Message ordering changed unexpectedly (msg #1: storage seq 140 -> 1) Fatal: Can't finish POP3 UIDL command And the affected accounts can't get at their email. Things work ok if people switch to IMAP but for some of our clients that is a difficulty, so we really need POP3 working. I used the Perl script given here to convert the mailboxes. The only fix we've found is the rename/delete the Dovecot-uidlist file for the affected mailboxes and we've done that, as it was only a few. The issue now is that more mailboxes are coming with the same error, even though they were fine originally. -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/Fatal-Can-t-finish-POP3-UIDL-command-t… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] quota-related crash for doveadm dsync operation
by Emmanuel Dreyfus 15 May '13

15 May '13

Hi I understand the crash below is caused by filesystem quota. I just report it because perhaps it could have a more graceful failure. Apr 29 09:39:17 danceny dovecot: dsync-local(jdoe): Error: Mailbox Sent: Saving failed: Not enough disk space Apr 29 09:39:17 danceny syslogd[165]: last message repeated 4 times Apr 29 09:39:17 danceny dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(jdoe): Error: Cached message size smaller than expected (35111 < 40830) Apr 29 09:39:17 danceny dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(jdoe): Error: Corrupted index cache file /mail/indexes/jdoe/.imap/Sent/dovecot.index.cache: Broken physical size for mail UID 976 Apr 29 09:39:17 danceny dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(jdoe): Error: dsync(local): read(/home/pct/jdoe/mail/Sent) failed: Invalid argument Apr 29 09:39:17 danceny dovecot: dsync-local(jdoe): Error: dsync(root(a)volanges.net.espci.fr): read() failed: Broken pipe Apr 29 09:39:17 danceny dovecot: dsync-local(jdoe): Panic: file mail-storage.c: line 1830 (mailbox_transaction_commit_get_changes): assertion failed: (ret < 0 || seq_range_count(&changes_r->saved_uids) == save_count || array_count(&changes_r->saved_uids) == 0) Apr 29 09:39:17 danceny dovecot: dsync-local(jdoe): Fatal: master: service(doveadm): child 23443 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - set service doveadm { drop_priv_before_exec=yes }) -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu(a)netbsd.org

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[Dovecot] Lucene and Zlib with 2.2.1
by Kyle Wheeler 15 May '13

15 May '13

Hello, I have an "archive" folder in my inbox, where I manually stick old mails into a compressed mbox format. Since upgrading to Dovecot 2.2.1, I've started seeing messages like the following in my log files: imap(...): Error: lucene: Failed to sync mailbox INBOX: Mailbox isn't selectable indexer-worker(...): Error: lucene: Failed to sync mailbox INBOX: Mailbox isn't selectable indexer-worker(...): Error: lucene: Failed to sync mailbox INBOX: Mailbox isn't selectable indexer-worker(...): Error: lucene: Failed to sync mailbox INBOX: Mailbox isn't selectable imap(...): Error: indexer failed to index mailbox INBOX/Archive/2007/Sent.gz These errors *appear* to be mostly benign; I still get results from searching the mailbox. But for whatever reason, the indexer appears to not be working for those folders. As you can probably tell, I'm using the fts_lucene plugin, which used to work just fine (with Dovecot 2.1.x). Is this expected behavior? Are these errors truly ignorable? Why are these compressed mailboxes not selectable? ~Kyle -- Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. -- Frederick Douglas

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[Dovecot] Xlist in userdb, Foldernames with whitespace?
by Hajo Locke 15 May '13

15 May '13

Hello, i use dovecot 2.1.7 and exported all my XLIST FolderSettings to userdb Whole Story is here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-March/089209.html This is all successful, but there is one problem left. I use lines like this to realize individual XLIST Foldernames in usedb: namespace/inbox/mailbox=Sent namespace/inbox/mailbox/Sent/name=Sent namespace/inbox/mailbox/Sent/auto=subscribe namespace/inbox/mailbox/Sent/special_use=\sent My problem is to allow Foldernames with whitespace in it f.e. Sent Messages I tried to put these names in quotes in this line or mask the blank with backslash but nothing was working. Dovecot ist not accepting these settings: dovecot: imap: Debug: Added userdb setting: namespace/inbox/mailbox="Sent Messages" dovecot: imap: Debug: Unknown userdb setting: plugin/namespace/inbox/mailbox/"Sent Messages"/auto=subscribe dovecot: imap: Debug: Unknown userdb setting: plugin/namespace/inbox/mailbox/"Sent Messages"/name="Sent Messages" dovecot: imap: Debug: Unknown userdb setting: plugin/namespace/inbox/mailbox/"Sent Messages"/special_use=\sent How to code folders with whitespace etc. in my userdb settings? I tried a lot but nothing was correct. Thanks, Hajo

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[Dovecot] protocols and privileges
by andreas graeper 15 May '13

15 May '13

hi, 1) protocols = pop3 but when starting the service, output tells about imap. when mua fetches mails ~/mail/.imap/INDEX is created. 2) i have some users uid=500 .. 505. src in /var/mail/%u, owner is <user>.mail and home-directories /home/<user> - owner is <user>.users when dovecot tries to create directory /home/<user>/mail then it tells for user xyz (uid = 502) euid=502(xyz) egid=100(users) missing +w permission /home/xyz , euid is not dir owner. but /home/xyz is owned by xyz.users and mod = 0700 ( drwx------ ) same environment for uid = 501 works great ! thanks in advance andreas ? permission lookup from /home/xyz/mail failed do i have to create that mail directory manually ?

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.2.1: lmtp running in base_dir
by Andy R 15 May '13

15 May '13

Evening all, I'm running into an issue with lmtp trying to store user mail in 'base_dir' ( same as this ( http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-January/056736.html )) however I'm just using PAM for auth. I've tried with chroot, without chroot and 'chroot'ing lmtp directly in ' service lmtp { } ' which just lead to lots more errors. I've not included anything of the current config so far, as I don't know what is needed here yet. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I can't spot it for the life of me. Can anyone offer any new ideas? Many thanks Andy R.

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